第14章

His disappearance terrified all of us. We started barricading the doors and windows at night, huddling together for protection against the unseen threats outside.

During this time, I kept studying the symbols. Day and night, when my mind was clear enough, I would stare at the black card, compare it with the symbols I saw, trying to decipher their meaning. It felt like a desperate race against time, as if understanding these symbols was our only hope.

One day, while examining the symbols more closely, I noticed a repeating pattern, almost like a root structure. And it struck me – this pattern resembled a nerve network, or perhaps, a data flow diagram. As a computer science student, I was familiar with these concepts. Could these alien symbols be related to information, to data, to code?

And then, another terrifying thought occurred to me. My initial warning came from playing a specific online game, about “backend ghost.” Could all this be related to some kind of digital entity, something from the virtual world that was somehow bleeding into reality?